The morals of today's youth have disappeared
I was recently thrown, shockingly, back into the real world today when I learned of a brutal beating of a young grade nine girl near my old high school (just a few blocks from my house). I use to believe my neighborhood was a safe one. It has been essentially crime free for years. It's been a upper middle class neighborhood since I first moved here 15 years ago. However in the last few years low income developments have been built including welfare housing. As families started to move into these areas crime has gone up. Now there is graffiti all over street signs, mail boxes etc. Break ins have been happening with increased frequency. And violence at the schools has increased. The number of large scale fights has increased dramatically in the last few years. To say all this is linked to the increase in low income families in the neighborhood may be unfair, it may be even more unfair to say it is also tied to the fact that the number of visible minorities in the neighborhood has significantly increased.
I'm not trying to say that the minorities are the problem however one thing that has been occurring is a clear resentment of the, mostly white, upper class by the, mostly black, lower class. Nearly all of the recent violence at the local high school has been provoked by african amercians. Either at other african americans or more often at white students (maybe its just because there is more of them, I don't know). While there seems to be a growing racial tension in my community I don't think it is the root of the problem.
I think it lies in the fact that most of the youth today have a complete lack of concern for anyone other than themselves. In Toronto murders are up 10% from last year and are set to break an all new record. Nearly all are being perpetrated by young people (late teens). This most recent attack I mentioned at the start was between grade nine students. A white student, a small girl barely 90lbs, accidently stepped on a black students shoes. The black student then followed the white student with 4 of her friends and then attacked her, threw her to the ground and stomped on her face and stomach repeatedly. A family friend was attacked by a group of girls for no reason, at least no reason she could explain. The group attacked her, through her to the ground and did the same thing, stomping on her until they were forced to scatter stealing her purse. Again I don't want to force race on the issue but this group were all black students from the local high school. All over north america you can see youth becoming more and more violent. Crime is steadily increasing between all groups. Black on black crime has grown increasingly worse here in Toronto (several african-americans were killed this weekend in apparent gang related activities). It appears to me that there is a lack of morals throughout today's youth. And I'm going to say it (even if some think it racist), in particularly among young african-americans. There is something about black youth culture that seems to permit violence. I don't know what it is, I'm not going to blame rap music, but I see it becoming a problem that seems to be greatly effecting north american.
Alright, I vented. I'm still rather shaken up about the poor girl beaten to the point of being hospitalized because she stepped on someones shoes. I'd like to hear others opinions on this. Has the youth of today thrown their morals out the window? Are we slowly moving towards a violent, inhuman society where no one but yourself matters?
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Originally Posted by Gary88
